Chapter 596

The refinement path Gu Masters take formation, and Hei Lou Lan throws his two-edge owner token into the air for the grey radiance of grey meltdown to strike. Fang Yuan, who controls this floor, teleports the token into his hand. Without it the radiance collapses and the killer move ends, and almost all the refinement path Gu Masters in the formation die from the backlash. Hei Lou Lan spurts blood, staggers back, and howls over his owner token. Fang Yuan puts it away under his sleeve in total secret, and no one suspects him. ^{ch. 596}

Mo Yao’s will rages in Fang Yuan’s mind: the token has only two edges, making eight with his six, and he should have waited for four. Fang Yuan sneers that she knows nothing. Hei Lou Lan cannot say where the token went, and history records no owner token ever vanishing. Fang Yuan hurries over wearing a heavily anxious expression that draws sympathy. ^{ch. 596}

Morale falls as the green vines press harder, and many flee in disorder. Tai Bai Yun Sheng wonders if he will die here. Then someone shouts that they can leave. Fang Yuan has left a lifeline, letting Gu Masters enter and exit this floor freely. Completely annihilating Hei tribe would definitely draw the all-out revenge of its Gu Immortals, and he still needs Tai Bai Yun Sheng to refine landscape as before Gu. ^{ch. 596}

The army retreats, and Hei Lou Lan leaves the plaza ashen and silent. Tai Bai Yun Sheng expects it will be hard to form a presentable party soon, but he is wrong. The very next day, Hei Lou Lan forms a large army again and attacks the second round, ready to pass it by brute force. Having deceived two great Gu Immortals in his pledge of revenge, he can no longer turn back. ^{ch. 596}

On the night of the retreat, Fang Yuan quietly enters Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, where Mo Yao sneers that he has only eight edges. Along the secret treasury corridor, he takes over a hundred Gu worms, tens of Gu recipes, inheritance information and over twenty documents on cultivation insights out of the crystal walls. He keeps around eighty Gu worms outside. Mo Yao cannot tell what he is doing. ^{ch. 596}

He is replicating, to the smallest detail, the actions of Fairy Black Moon, leader among the eleven Gu Immortals who attacked Imperial Court blessed land in his previous life’s video. Central continent Gu Immortals had sent Gu Masters into northern plains to arrange these treasures over close to a millennium. Over three hundred steps past the guest halt stele, he places the Gu worms into the walls in a pattern, taking or shifting some original treasures. Together they form a refinement path killer move. It originates from grey meltdown but hits much stronger. ^{ch. 596}

Grey fog entirely submerges him, and holding the six-edge owner token, he shouts for Fixed Immortal Travel to come back. The twenty-first floor, with seventeen rounds remaining, disintegrates, and its rewards appear before him. Among them is Immortal Gu Fixed Immortal Travel, a rank six Gu, which he leaves on his shoulder because his mortal aperture cannot store it at its peak state. The building shakes greatly, the twelve remaining rounds of the thirty-fourth floor are passed, and he puts the Immortal Gu Gruel Mud into his pouch. ^{ch. 596}

Long before, he had hidden Fixed Immortal Travel and Gruel Mud in the earth. When the building condensed, it plundered the whole of Northern Plains, and even Immortal Gu Wooden Chicken, which had escaped Xue Song Zi and Hei Bai, was captured. His meticulously buried Immortal Gu were placed as the last rewards of the twenty-first and thirty-fourth floors, half-refined because Giant Sun’s will is in hibernation, as he planned. Mo Yao demands to know who he is and which region and force sent him. ^{ch. 596}